Windows 10: External HDD can't be read completely and causes lag

External HDD can't be read completely and causes lag

good day. i have a toshiba canvio 3.0 1tb that can be read by my laptop. the long story is my ehdd had bad sectors and causes corruption in my files thus i formatted it. After a while i wen into an internet cafe to copy some games after going back to my house and plugging it in my laptop it doesn't stop loading and thus cannot be opened i cant detect it from disk management too since file explorer can't be load by it either ill post some screenshots.

edit: chkdsk in drive E: can't even continue

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hello good day i just get back from school i left the chkdsk open while i was in school and it progress through. im trying now to see if my files are corrupted. ill get back to you thanks for answering

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If Lucid Puppy cannot read your external drive, I don't think there is any other viable solution.

thanks for the reply. i dont need to recover my data in the external hard drive since its mainly games, i just need to make it bootable again can this lucid puppy format or make the external drive bootable again?

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thanks for the reply. i dont need to recover my data in the external hard drive since its mainly games, i just need to make it bootable again can this lucid puppy format or make the external drive bootable again?

If a drive is starting to develop bad sectors then it's going to continue to get worse. You may well need a new one. You can check it's condition with Crystal Disk Info which will read it's SMART data. Any number above 0 for 'Relocated sector count', 'Current Pending Sector Count' or 'Uncorrectable Sector Count' is a bad sign. Chckdsk or other software can mark bad sectors so they don't get used, but it's only a Band-Aid - more are likely to develop later.

The only case where chkdsk may help is if the bad sectors were due to you dropping the drive while it was running - if there's a known cause for the bad blocks the rest of the drive may be OK to use. If they appeared for no apparent reason the drive is probably failing.

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